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Environmental history and what makes for a civilization – Romila Thapar
A brief excerpt from an interview by PUSHPA CHARI, The Hindu, March 31, 2012 Today, environmental history or understanding history through environmental change, is gaining ground. Have you built it into your work? Environmental history is being researched in a much bigger … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Bees and honey, Biodiversity, Ecology and environment, Health and nutrition, History, Languages and linguistic heritage, Misconceptions, Nature and wildlife, Press snippets
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Video | “The past is very delicate”: Prof. Romila Thapar on narratives about the distant past
Prof. Romila Thapar, during an Interactive Workshop chaired by Prof. Rustom Bharucha, highlights the dangers arising from misrepresenting ‘narratives’ as ‘history’. “Every society had narratives about its past and some regarded them as history as time went on […] The … Continue reading
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Forest dwellers in early India – myths and ecology in historical perspective
“Even though they are responsible for protecting the largest part of the global forest heritage […] a third of indigenous and community lands in 64 countries are under threat due to the lack of land tenure rights.” – Pressenza Rio de … Continue reading
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A constitution which guarantees: “The State shall not discriminate against any citizen” – The Sovereign Republic of India
Did the Constitution of India borrow ideas and many of its stand out features from the constitutions of other countries? Yes, after intense scrutiny, it turns out that our founding fathers liberally chose what features to embed into our Constitution … Continue reading →